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This online rhetoric, provided by Dr. Gideon Burton of Brigham Young University, is a guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric. This site is intended to help beginners, as well as experts, make sense of rhetoric, both on the small scale (definitions and examples of specific terms) and on the large scale (the purposes of rhetoric, the patterns into which it has fallen historically as it has been taught and practiced for 2000+ years).

AP Rhetorical device AP Language argumentation ppt Sample Language test AP style analysis notes Rhetoric of Marc Antony in JC appeals

Brief definitions of 130 figures of speech and other rhetorical terms with links to expanded discussions and examples.

Jolliffe's rhetorical diagram for AP LANG

This would be a great piece of controversial visual rhetoric to explore with students. It could be compared to the controversy created with the photograph of "The Falling Man" - http://www.esquire.com/features/ESQ0903-SEP_FALLINGMAN

Freshman Comp reference site; some useful information regarding basic elements of argument and composition but nothing like Purdue's OWL.

Orwell's advice to writers.